Living Deeply

A Frustrated Search (Joyce Meyer)

I remember the emptiness I felt in 1976 when, as a young Christian, I realised that doing the right things brought temporary happiness but not deep and satisfying joy…Without doubt, I saw God as big and powerful, and I wanted to remain safely within the borders of His provision, so I lived by the law of the church. I showed up for every meeting and signed up for multiple opportunities to serve Him, but my life was still full of irritations and aggravations that robbed me of true contentment. Many people frustrate their search for fulfilment, as I did, because they don’t know where to look for that one thing that will satisfy their desire for something more…I was a Christian for several years before I understood that true inner satisfaction is the most important thing in life and that it is the result of enjoying life through the abiding presence of God.

God is Present

To be present is to arrive as one is and open up to the other.
At this instant, as I arrive here, God is present waiting for me.
God always arrives before me, desiring to connect with me
even more than my most intimate friend.
I take a moment and greet your loving God.

Go Plainly and Simply to Him (Brother Lawrence)

I turn over my little omelet in the frying pan for the love of God. When it is done, if I have nothing else to do, I bow down to the ground and adore God from who has come the grace to make it. Then I straighten up, more contented than a king. When there is nothing more that I can do, it is enough to pick up a straw from the floor for the love of God.

People look for methods for learning to love God. They desire to arrive by I don’t know how many different practices. They take great pains to remain in the presence of God by a quantity of means. Is it not much sorter and more direct to do everything for the love of God, to use all the tasks of one’s situation, to give testimony of it, and to maintain His presence within us by this communication of the heart with Him? He has no fancy ways for this. One has only to go plainly and simply to Him